Shrimp doesn't sound nearly as exotic as "Sea Monkeys".

Complete performance from The Baseball Project at the Met from 4.10.12. The Baseball Project (at least this time around) was Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate), Peter Buck (R.E.M.), Scott McCaughey (R.E.M., Young Fresh Fellows, the Minus Five), Mike Mills (R.E.M.) and Linda Pitmon.

This is from an in-studio performance Patterson Hood and Jay Gonzalez of Drive-By Truckers did for WNRN in Virginia earlier this week. To listen to the entire interview and performance (which includes "Mercy Buckets" and "Used To Be A Cop"), click here.

Secret Service Concludes 'Solid' Meeting With Ted Nugent

This is not a "frozen wave" as is so commonly reported as that would be impossible. Snopes offers up this explanation.

I'm not necessarily a fan myself but at least she does write her own songs and knows how to play guitar.

Drive-By Truckers and Megafaun combined their formidable forces last night at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC for this salute to Levon.

It depends on what modern music they're listening to as that's a pretty broad spectrum.

Apparently Levon passed away earlier today. Levon Helm, Drummer and Singer of the Band, Dead at 71

Lyric video for Rush's "Headlong Flight".

This was shot at the Berkeley Cafe in Raleigh, North Carolina a few weeks ago. Some of you may remember Dan Baird from his band the Georgia Satellites.

This was shot at the Norva in Norfolk, VA last night where Megafaun were opening for the Drive-By Truckers. I'll be seeing this show tonight when it hits the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC.

Being "stuck" in modern music isn't a bad place to be. Depending upon what that music is, of course...

Joe Henry on Levon. GONE/NOT GONE: LEVON HELM IN MOTION As I sit writing this, on the late evening of April 17, Levon Helm is not yet gone, but neither is he fully here among the living. As we understand from his family, he is hovering now at the doorway between this world and the next…taking the air of mortals in shallow and halting breaths, but with his eyes rolled back against the drawn curtain of his times. Already, for many of us sadly absorbing the falling shoe of this news and preparing for the other, he has assumed the flickering posture of memory; of those who have danced alive in our high beams, throwing shadows that move like ancient black rivers, and pointing the way forward from so far behind us that he shall forever, hence forth, stand ahead on the pathway like an omen of what is still to come. Levon entered my life when I was so young as to have had no notion that my gate needed a guard; thus, he waltzed right in and I was completely vulnerable to his raucous and ranging alchemy, and he changed me. Like children pulled into ministerial service when still in single digits, I looked unquestioningly upon Levon Helm as my church elder…a deacon who spoke our gospel; who swung- and sung-out time in glorious illumination of its wild and elastic poetry. In the same way that his great friend and sometimes-boss Bob Dylan connected the dots between Jimmy Reed, Arthur Rimbaud, and Muhammad Ali, so Levon drew the second line that had Howlin’ Wolf, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Hank Williams all dancing out in front of the same New Orleans funeral party. (They all walked liked Bo Diddley and didn’t need no crutch.) As I await word of the inevitable –while we all wait— I find there is nothing I can do but listen. And when I do, I am moved; moving…leaning, as implied, from the past tense into present action; loosing my mind to the instinctive sway of my knees and shoulders, as I am reminded how much of our true intelligence resides in our bodies’ southern hemisphere. Yes, all we can do this day is listen and move. But then, that is all Levon Helm ever asked of any of us. Joe Henry South Pasadena, CA

From VH1's Classic Albums series, the making of The Band.

In honor of Fandango which was released 37 years ago today. http://youtu.be/B-e7GKaoQuI

Preview of the Ramming documentary which will be part of the deluxe reissue of Ram that's coming out on May 22nd. More info here.

No.

Def Leppard spelled it that way to emulate the spelling and look of "Led Zeppelin". If you want to have their names changed to "Lead Zeppelin" and "Deaf Leopard", well, good luck with that...

In the days before The Midnight Special, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, ABC's In Concert and Austin City Limits, American Bandstand was one of the few places we could go to get our musical fix via television (even if it was lip synched). I tuned into Soul Train on Saturdays for the dancing and switched over to American Bandstand to see what was big on the charts. The Rate-A-Record thing was pretty cool too. It's was because of that feature that "it's got a good beat and you can dance to it" became part of the lexicon.

Yes. Just ask Def Leppard.